Posted on 12/12/2019 11:56:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to “crush the monstrous evil of anti-Semitism” as he signed an executive order giving the federal government more tools to defend Jews from anti-Semitism through civil rights laws protecting against discrimation on college campuses.
The move is a welcome step to define the problem and empower the government to investigate such threats on campus, but American Jews are facing increasing intimidation and peril that go well beyond the university quad.
What we are seeing today is the mainstreaming and normalizing of anti-Semitic tropes by elected leaders and media personalities that then empower bigots.
One of the worst offenders is the president’s favorite network: Fox News.
On Nov. 13, Joe diGenova, a frequent guest on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network, maligned Jewish financier and progressive activist George Soros, claiming he “controls a very large part of the career Foreign Service of the United States State Department.” DiGenova continued, “He corrupted FBI officials, he corrupted Foreign Service officers.”
Accusing Soros of “controlling” the government and world affairs is an enduring anti-Semitic slur. It is rooted in “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” Czarist propaganda invented early in the 20th century to demonize and scapegoat Jews. The propaganda has likewise been used as the basis to demonize, persecute and even slaughter Jews around the world for generations.
We cannot win the battle against anti-Semitism and hatred in society through executive orders and legislative fixes alone. While these protections are important, we also need our news media to be fully accountable to the public they serve. Not only must they take responsibility for what is on their airwaves, but they must also ensure that their broadcasts are not turned into forums for spreading hate
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Jonathan Greenblatt is an American social entrepreneur, corporate executive, and the sixth National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Prior to heading ADL, Greenblatt served in the White House as Special Assistant to Barack Obama, and Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
A millionaire professional merchant of hate.
Amity is his enemy, hatred is his daily bread & butter.
So according to this scum any criticism of an Anti-Semite Nazi who happens to have Jewish heritage like Soros is in itself anti-Semitic? You can’t make this stuff up.
Amazing how leftist progressives who happen to be Jewish always hide behind their religion when they are called out for their political beliefs.
He’s also an idiot.
His FEAR of the truth being told about soros blinds him to everything.
What a bitch.
Calling out a REAL bad guy doesn’t make someone anti Jewish more than calling out John Gotti made someone anti Italian.
Progressivism on the side of the good guys will still erode liberty.
The ADL got its start providing legal protection to La Kosher Nostra guys looking to clean their reputations.
If you are an urban employee of the ADL you will get NOWHERE professionally and they had to settle many lawsuits centering on that question.
It’s difficult to understand.
What NBC is actually trying to do is to say Soros nominal religious faith makes him exempt from criticism, which is actually criticism just because he is George Soros and not because he is Jewish.
One has to ask, legitimately, how many Soros associated folks work at or with the “news makers” at NBC.
Calling out a REAL bad guy doesn’t make someone anti Jewish more than calling out John Gotti made someone anti Italian.
You win the thread. :)
And yet they are the 2nd best voters for their own abusers!-)
Studying scripture, keeping kosher etc is very hard, it’s much easier to make your own weird, secular religion “advancing progressivism” and fetishizing the historical chips on your shoulder, driving other groups apart, etc.
True. To have to point this fact out is a shame, it should be self evident.
This dude has NO idea how much the obamas detested him - and still do.
Gee I didnt hear the commie media report on the New Jersey attack, since the perps were black Jihadists
Soros told the Nazi’s where the Jews were hiding so he could go into their homes and steal their stuff
I’m a Jew, believe in god and pray, don’t go to temple, love bacon and am a Republican:-)
NEVER change..!
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